Tag: Sayed Asif Mahmud

Sayed Asif Mahmud – Tobacco Tale

Jan 10, 2020

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Link: Tobacco Tale depicts the cycle of destruction, a bizarre reality of tobacco industry in Bangladesh—documentation of disposing people to unfortunate death and decay.
Inside Bangladesh’s Cheap Cigarette Factories – LightBox

Jul 24, 2014

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LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2014/07/24/bangladesh-cigarette-factories/#1 About a year after Sayed Asif Mahmud began hanging around Bangladesh’s bidi factories to document those who make the hand-rolled cigarettes with low-grade tobacco, a cheap and popular alternative for pre-packaged ones across southeast Asia, he stopped. “I’m always in a dilemma with whether I’m…